First, give the quoted 🧵 a read. Second, based on the news reporting there are 4 overlapping problems that led to the strike on the girls school. 1) The intel was 13 year's old/out of date. 2) Grok or some other LLM appears to have been used to generate several thousand targets. 1/

So we're all assuming the 11e Marine codex will drop all the firstborn units, yeah?

Headline of the year www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/s...

I've been watching Babylon 5 (along with @merrittk.com) and it's striking how almost every episode is criticizing a) fascism, b) xenophobia/racism, c) homophobia, d) theocratic conservatism. @straczynski.bsky.social wrote that shit woker than The Pitt S2. No way an exec would greenlight it today.

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

Appreciate the NYT front page today

god this makes it even better. cinema

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Great to see all this but it also gives a real feeling of dread. This is what war looks like now - unmanned drones terrorizing major cities in relatively wealthy countries. It feels entirely plausible that we’ll see it over London or Hamburg in my lifetime 😕 bsky.app/profile/tend...

Easily the biggest disconnect is Calgarians not understanding that a generational commodity super cycle gave them that wealth and it had nothing to do with how much their work is worth.

A Fistful of Datas is a real paradox. Holodeck bullshit meets something is wrong with Data, which should be awful, but costumes, which is good? This episode should suck but it sorta doesn't?

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Given that we’re now desperately trying to undo the mistake of ceding our streets to cars because we realized 100 years too late the environmental and social damage of that choice, this is actually a great metaphor, just not the one he thinks.

Folks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.

The people yearn to take "an expert delivers a neat little talk" out of its home in the historical society basement on a Tuesday at noon and into its natural habitat, the Bar

Carney is a technocrat, institutionalist and intensely practical. He changes institutions, he doesn’t fight over policy. He is rewriting Canadas carbon reduction system to be supply focused and isn’t asking permission. I believe he is right. I pray he gets enough done fast enough to prove it.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

Incubi are such great minis

An idea I've been playing with for a while is that one of the core elements of the political economy of Trumpism is that a critical mass of the US capitalist class decided that decarbonization was not worth the costs to them.

No private sector proponent. No clear route. No Indigenous support in BC. As Danielle Smith approaches her self-appointed July 1st deadline, it's becoming more obvious than ever how unrealistic her pipeline dreams are. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/15/o...

First HQ + squad done for my 5th ed Dark Eldar, happy how these are coming along. Need to keep the gas pedal all the way down on geting this army done as a Cathay army is in my future for TOW.

Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

Everybody was wondering what it would take for the Jays to feel like themselves again and it turns out the answer is, Kirk. Just Kirk.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Hell yeah electrek.co/2026/06/10/b...

We're offering Umdaar as a Pay What You Want title to gauge fan interest in both the game and the Fate system in general. The suggested price is $20 for this 464-page standalone PDF, but if you're just purchasing out of idle curiosity, consider paying at least $1 - it really helps boost the title.

Vladdy the vibe killer. Man you are way out of time to have figured this shit out. You're killing me here.

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

Watched a Star Trek with my son (13) today and pointed out that it was basically an adaptation of the Portrait of Dorian Gray (the novel he just recently read because his e-reader suggested it, not because he had to, he liked it) and I feel like I'm doing a good job on the dad front

The perfectly American thing is, we haven’t had as bad an oil shock as anticipated because our greatest geopolitical rival got smart and wildly accelerated its transition to renewables, cutting its demand, and our response is “well thank God that’s keeping prices down so *we don’t have to do that.*”

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

FUCKING YES VALENZUELA YOU BEAUTIFUL SON OF A BITCH

Canadian oil company TV ads have switched from lying about carbon capture to pretending oil isn't in its death throes and excitedly urging everyone to get on board with how exciting the ongoing oil demand destruction will be. I look forward to when they don't have enough money for commercials.

Seriously, though, explain how Springer and Vladdy are still in the top 3, make it make sense to me.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Hegseth is what happens when you somehow combine a bad conduct & a dishonorable discharge, conjure it into human form, & then make it Secretary of Defense. Here's my 2018 write up of our allies contributions on D-Day.

Im doing commentary for the Vancouver MegaCities championship in 3 hours! Some of the highest skill netrunner play of the Megacity circuit as Vancouver is home to 2 former world champs and I'm sure the Seattle meta will try to give them a run for their money Come check it out twitch.tv/sindarinrp/

I know what I'm watching while recovering from surgery. Buffy marathon! Lie to me, Giles, we thought you'd live forever. youtu.be/ItxpnClS8-k

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

John Blanche has died. Absolutely devastating news. I have no words right now. It will have to wait. Farewell, old friend.

I have a dream. I dream of a world in which media outlets understand that 'refute' is a real English word with a specific meaning, which does not include denial, dissembly, obfuscation, or lying. People making bullshit denials of obvious truth are not refuting anything. Get your shit together.

Thread. Some folks who followed me from the Bad Place may remember an old thread where I asked a NatSec friend for a “surprise” threat and he said “If you own anything in Phoenix, sell and get the hell out.” That was close to 20 years ago.

"as the cost of generating and storing clean energy keeps getting cheaper just as the cost of relying on fossil fuel imports is skyrocketing higher. In time, that will do more to threaten the profitability of the oil and gas industry — and eventually, if it doesn’t react, its viability."

I had a really great conversation with @deadlyfredly.bsky.social about Fate, the trajectory of Evil Hat as a publisher and how we might be looking at the last official release. I think there's some great anecdotes here, including how the early internet still influences the company's ethos.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. /1